Little League hopes other youth baseball organizations follow its lead after it adopted the number of pitches to replace innings as a regulator for pitchers. The legislation, enacted by a unanimous vote of Little League's board of directors, takes effect with the 2007 season for 7,000-plus leagues worldwide.

Former major league pitcher Tom House said he misspoke when he estimated a half-dozen pitchers on every team experimented with steroids or human growth hormone in the 1960s and 1970s. House said he meant to say those players used amphetamines.

Former major league pitcher Tom House used steroids during his career and said performance-enhancing drugs were widespread in baseball in the 1960s and 1970s, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Tuesday.